About CORE
Mission
CORE’s mission is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public. In this way CORE facilitates free unrestricted access to research for all.
CORE:
- supports the right of citizens and general public to access the results of research towards which they contributed by paying taxes,
- facilitates access to open access content for all by offering services to general public, academic institutions, libraries, software developers, researchers, etc.,
- provides support to both content consumers and content providers by working with digital libraries, institutional and subject repositories and journals,
- enriches the research content using state-of-the-art technology and provides access to it through a set of services including search, API and analytical tools,
- contributes to a cultural change by promoting open access, a fast growing movement.
CORE harvests openly accessible content available according to the definition:
By 'open access' to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
Part of the BOAI declaration
How it works
Harvesting data
CORE harvests research papers from data providers from all over the world including institutional and subject repositories, open access and hybrid journal publishers.
CORE currently contains 207,227,042 open access articles, from thousands and over tens of thousands of journals, collected from 12,580 data providers around the world.
CORE will supply data for the UK REF 2021 Open Access Policy Audit to Research England. We provide advice and support to UK HEIs with exposing their outputs data to CORE.
Team
Petr KnothFounder & Head of COREResponsible for leading the team, development & research effort, funding and product strategy. Believes in free unrestricted access to research for all. Developed the first CORE prototype in 2010. Excited by improving machine access to scientific literature to support text and data analysis.
Lucas AnastasiouSenior DeveloperWorks on improving and and maintaining CORE services. Elasticsearch guru. While not on his computer coding, he enjoys playing chess, scratching his guitar and dreams of climbing Alpe d'Huez or Col de la Madone with his bike.
Valeriy BudkoFull Stack DeveloperPHP and JavaScript developer. Performs code optimization and implementation of continuous integration. In his spare time, he upgrades a long-range quadrocopter to monitor environmental conditions.
Matteo CancellieriLead Developer (Backend)Works on improving and and maintaining CORE services. He is a detail knowledge base of all CORE services. Has been developing for CORE for several years and Continuous Integration secret lover. Once he was a Super Mario plumber.
Drahomira HerrmannovaData Analyst & ResearcherWorks with the rest of the team on both front- and back-end development. Enjoys maintaining and improving CORE as it provides her with useful data for her PhD. Dreams of turning CORE into a hub for Semantometric research. Book lover and sports enthusiast in her spare time.
Alexander HubaSoftware DeveloperHelps to design and create robust code applying industry best practices to the backend components of CORE. In his spare time, loves playing guitar, swimming and reading.
Catherine KuliavetsPersonal & Team Administrative AssistantResponsible for acting as the first point of contact for a range of tasks and common queries. Manages diaries and meetings, helps with organising events and conferences; collects information from external sources; liaises with staff, suppliers and clients.
Suchetha N.KunnathPhD StudentSuchetha’s research focusses on the classification of citations based on their purpose and influence. The main areas of research interest include Text Mining, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. Outside of work, she likes to travel and experiment with photography.
Samuel PearceDeveloper and Infrastructure SpecialistMain responsible for CORE's impressive high availability infrastructure. Backend operations technical lead, ensuring the technical aspects of daily operations of CORE, data aggregation and dealing with technical issues.
Nancy PontikaOpen Access Specialist & CommunicationsA communications guru in the 'dominated by developers' CORE team. Her job is to liaise with the data providers and the technical group. As an open access advocate she hopes that one day there will be no access barriers to scientific literature. In her spare time she likes to swim, read and travel.
David PrideResearch AssociateAfter completing the PhD, working on observing the Matthew Effect in open science and the ramifications for responsible research metrics.
Maria TarasiukSoftware DeveloperSoftware services and infrastrucutre developer. Keeping and continuously improving our backend systems.
Bethany WalkerManager, Business & PartnershipsBethany is responsible for CORE’s business development and maintaining our commercial partnerships programme. Her goal is to help internal and external customers get the very best from CORE. In her spare time, Bethany likes to knit and spend time in the garden trying to keep plants alive.
Viktor YakubivSenior Front-End DeveloperAn expert in Web Development who believes that functional and accessible UI is the key of success of the product. Leads front-end development and maintains CORE's design system.
Anna ZelinskaProject managerHelps to provide high quality services and deliver the best results as quickly as possible. Supports developers to improve software. Inspires by books and new knowlege.
Past team members
- Giorgio Basile
- Aristotelis Charalampous
- Bikash Gyawali
- Jozef Harag
- Tomas Korec
- Dominika Koroncziova
- Magdalena Krygielova
- Sergei Misak
- Jakub Novotny
- Gabriela Pavel
- Vojtech Robotka
- Svetlana Rumyanceva
- Ian Tindle
- Zdenek Zdrahal
Resources and promotional materials
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Contacts
Check our join guidelines.
Please submit your request on the article update page.
Go to our key register page. Make sure you have covered all the relevant information about the API available on our website.
To discuss project and research collaborations or if you represent an industry partner interested in using CORE in your work, please contact:
Dr. Petr KnothKnowledge Media institute, The Open University
Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, BUCKS, United Kingdom
petr (dot) knoth (at) open (dot) ac (dot) uk
For any other question or enquiry about CORE you will probably find an answer in our FAQs.
However, if you did not, email us. A team member will reply as soon as possible – please note that questions that fall into the above categories will not be answered on this email.